Superior Interactive is pleased to present two novel and enthralling puzzle games - featuring mind-tingling levels, polished presentation and plenty of humorous touches.

Zen Puzzle Garden is one of the greatest puzzle games we have ever seen, and we have certainly seen many over the years!

We expect that this game will appeal to Repton fans. Although the two games are quite different, they are both impressive games providing top-class thought-provoking puzzles.

Zen Puzzle Garden shines with quality through and through. It is one of a small select number of games to have been awarded the prestigious Bytten Gold Star Award, with their glowing review including the following comments:

"The presentation is very good and it is clear that a lot work has gone into getting the game to look, and work, just right."
 
"The game is very challenging but not frustrating by being too difficult because the basic idea is so simple to visualise. It's almost like the solution is inches away."
 
"About half of the games we review are some sort of puzzle game and of those I've so far reviewed, Zen Puzzle Garden is the best to play, and the best presented too."

Each level in Zen Puzzle Garden is a special Japanese rock garden which can be solved by raking all of the sand. The player controls a little monk, who must endeavour to complete each garden; the monk cannot walk over sand he has already raked. Adding to the complexity there are rocks, movable stone ornaments and collectable leaves - the leaves have to be collected in sequence: yellow first, followed by orange, and then red.

The whole game takes place over the four seasons of the year: the spring months are fairly gentle puzzles, stone ornaments start to come into the play in the summer, the leaves first appear in autumn, while winter gardens combine all of the features into some very challenging puzzles.

There is no time pressure, and you can restart each puzzle or undo one move whenever you want, so you can experiment with different raking patterns on the path to enlightenment.

It is very difficult to describe the full attraction of this remarkable game, so please judge for yourself by downloading the free trial version of Zen Puzzle Garden, which features the first five puzzle gardens. If you have already decided that you would like to buy the game, please check through our comments on Neko Puzzle, as both games can now be bought together for a special offer price. The full version of Zen Puzzle Garden contains 64 gardens, including 16 complex winter gardens. Containing beautiful graphics and intriguing puzzles, Zen Puzzle Garden is a wonderful game, and highly recommended!

Before moving on to Neko Puzzle, a few words about Repton 2 and Pipeline Plus, which are nearing completion. Repton 2 is looking very impressive and is soon about to enter the stage of final level testing. We are also considering releasing some new levels for Repton 1 - we would appreciate your guidance on the type of level you prefer so please check out our Repton 1 poll and of course you can also email me if you wish: richard@superiorinteractive.com

The name Pipeline Plus has been chosen to avoid any possible confusion with other Pipeline games and to emphasise that extra levels and a high quality editor are being included. The new Pipeline Plus graphics and level designs are superb!

Neko Puzzle is a cute puzzle game designed to make you feel good! The gameplay can be learned in under a minute; and it can be enjoyed by absolute beginners and hardened puzzle game fanatics alike.

The objective of Neko Puzzle is to guide a little jumping cat around each level picking up all of the items before the time runs out at midnight (watch the moon as a guide to the remaining time). Your cat can jump up, down, left or right; and if the items are collected in the wrong order, the result is likely to be a stranded cat.

Although Neko Puzzle is very easy to learn, the puzzles range from easy to fiendishly difficult. You can choose to play on easy mode, so that the puzzles are generally quite simple and relaxing, and each puzzle doesn't take long to complete. Normal mode is considerably more difficult; while the hard mode will throw all sorts of interesting puzzles at you! At this difficulty setting, you must very quickly make logical deductions about which jumps are safe to make.

An easy puzzle...

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...finished!

The puzzles are randomly generated (but based upon the selected difficulty and level number), so you see a fresh new batch of puzzles every time you play. The game also comes with an optional puzzle solver: if you get stuck, you can choose to bring on a robotic cat to demonstrate the solution to the puzzle.

The two-player mode can be hilarious as the two players each control separate cats racing to complete the level before the other.

Again it is difficult to convey everything that this very enjoyable game has to offer; and the free trial version of Neko Puzzle gives you a good feel for the game, allowing the first 20 levels to played in the normal difficulty setting in the one-player mode. The full version contains 48 levels, three modes of difficulty, the two-player mode and a special nine-lives cheat in case you find that your cat needs extra lives for some of the puzzles.

Zen Puzzle Garden is priced at $19.95, Neko Puzzle is $14.95, and there is a 20% discount if you buy both games at the same time. You can also purchase the games priced in British pounds or Euros. The current sterling prices are:

£11.28 £8.45 £15.78

for Zen Puzzle Garden, for Neko Puzzle, and for Zen Puzzle Garden and Neko Puzzle together.

Please click here for the special offer on these two exceptional quality games.

Best wishes,

Richard Hanson, Superior Interactive

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